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"Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge."
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"Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity."

"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."

"I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did."

"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."

"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."

"It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day."

"I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days."
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